The SOG's Award for Master’s Theses

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If you have any questions, please contact the office of the Southeast Europe Society:

Tel.: +49 89 21 21 540
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The Fritz and Helga Exner Foundation, which is affiliated with the Southeast Europe Association, awards prizes once a year for outstanding achievements (master's theses) in the field of research on Southeast Europe. The award is endowed with a prize money of 300 €. Awardees are granted the opportunity to publish the thesis’ central results in the SOG's publication series (in Südosteuropa Mitteilungen or Southeast Europe in Focus). Furthermore, the awardees are admitted as members of the SOG for one year free of charge.

Application requirements

  • the thesis must be part of the field of research on Southeast Europe
  • written in German or English
  • submitted a maximum of two years before the application

Here you can download the call for applications as a PDF (in German).

Documents to be submitted

  • Curriculum vitae (1-2 pages)
  • all reviewers’ reports of the thesis
  • a synopsis of the master's thesis (1-2 pages)
  • one copy of the master's thesis

Application deadline: 1 July

All documents can be submitted in PDF format using the online form below.

Both the authors and the reviewers of the thesis are entitled to submit the application.

2026

Cosmas Tanzer

„Volksdeutsche" als Wachmänner in deutschen Konzentrationslagern: Untersucht anhand der 4. Kompanie des SS Totenkopfsturmbanns Mittelbau und ihrer Mitglieder aus der Bačka, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, 2025

2025

Baillie Bell

The Women of the Bosnian War: Disrupting Dominant Narratives of Violence, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, 2024

2024

Olga Bostan

One drop at a time: Waterways in rural Moldova, Leipzig University, 2024

2023

Melanie Jaindl

Gender and Visual Securitization of Migrants along the Balkan Route, Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz, 2023

2022

Jeremy Wölbling

Die Schmach von Trianon: Karten und Karikaturen in Ungarn im Dienst der territorialen Revisionsbestrebungen (1920-1938), University of Tübingen, 2020

2021

Moritz Müller

Der ewige Augenblick – Ismet Prcics Shards und die Gegenwart des Krieges, Humboldt-University Berlin, 2021